Portable electric flash-light.



o. JJ SAGEBREGHT.

P ORTABLE ELBGTRIG FLASH LIGHT.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 21, 1914.

1,122,424. Patented Dec. 29, 1914.

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UNITED STATES naman CHARLES J. SAGE'BRECHT, 0F BROOKY-N, NEW YRK,ASSIGNOR TO INTERSTATE .ELECTRIQ NOVEL-TY GO., GF NEW YORK, N. Y., ACORPORATION 0F NEW' YORK.

PonTaBLn nnn'ornic' FLASH-LIGHT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 22, 31 lii.

Application file'd May 21,'1914. Serial No; 889,922.

.To all 'whom z't may concern:

` Be it known that I, CHARLES J. SAGE- BREoH'r, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State ofNew York, have in-. vented certain new and useful Improvements inPortable Electric Flash-Lights, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention pertains more particularly to portable electric lights ofa character adapted, owing to size and compact'ness, of being carried inthe pocket of the user.

considerable diiiiculty has heretofore-existed in some classes of pocketfiash lights in preventing the moving around'of the battery within themetal casing and the accidental making of the circuit through' the lamp,battery and casing due to such shifting of the battery, the shifting ofthe battery frequently carrying its terminal into contact with thecircuit closer. The result of this has been that the batteries have beenunnecessarily consumed and sometimes have been pronounced worthless,whereas in fact they have been consumed while the lamp was in the pocketof the user and without his knowledge.

The object of the present invention is to provide a compact -fiash lightadapted to receive abattery of ordinary construction and to avoid thecontingency of the circuit being made by an accidental shifting of thebattery in the case.

The invention will be' fully understood from the detailed 'descriptionhereinafter presented, reference being had to the accomp'anyingdrawings, in which:

Figure' 1 is a side elevation of a pocket flash light or electric lampembodying my invention; Fig. 2 `'is an elevation of the same with thetwo halves of the inclosing casing shown in their open position; Fig. 3is a transverse section, on an enlarged scale, through the same on thedotted line 3-3 of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a vertical section, also on anenlarged scale, through the upper portion of the same on the dotted line4-4 of Fig. 1; Fig. 5 is an enlarged view of a portion of one-halfsection of the same, corresponding with the left hand portion of Fig.

. 2, showing the circuit closer as having been moved to its circuitclosing position from its normal position illustrated in Fig: 2, andFig. 6 is a detached Sectional view about on a line 6--6 of Fig. l,showing the latch for latching the two half sections of the outer casingin closed position.

In the drawings 10 designates an exterior metal casing of rectangulargeneral outline but having rounded edge portions, said casingl beingcomposed of two shallow half sections ll, 12 connected together at oneedge by the hinge 13 and at their opposite meeting edges being equippedwith lat-oh members comprising a leaf spring 14: riveted at its upperend, as at 15, to the half secton ll and provided. at with a. latchmember 16 and thumb-piece 17, said thumb-piece being extended through aslot 18 formed in the section ll and said latch'meniber 16 being simplyan extension of the spring 14 and containing an opening to sna-p over astud 19 formed by indenting the metal of the section 12 inwardly for thepurpose of interlocking with said latchmember 16 when the two halfsections of the casing are closed together, see Fig. 6. There its lowerportion is no special novelty in the means for lock-v of the halfsection 12 of the casing 10 is secured a reflector 19a and the otherhalf section of the casing at its upper middle portion is rocessed, asat 20, to fit around said reflector. Wlithin the reflector 19a issecured the electric lamp bulb 21 whose threaded socket engages saidreflector and also enters a bracket plate 22 which is somewhat ofright-angular formation and fastened directly to the inner wall of thehalf section 12 by solder or otherwise, the exterior casing and lampbeing by means of said bracket 22 placed in electrical connection. Uponthe vertical member of the bracket 22 is secured a bar 23 ofnon-conducting material, and upon the outer end of this bar .is securedby eyelets or rivets 24, two substantially corresponding plates 25, 26of right-angular formation having end of the socket for the lamp 21, andits vertical short terminal 30 extended upwardly into the aw 27 formedby the plates 25, 26, as will be understood on reference to Figs. 2, 3and 5. The battery 28 is seated upon a right-angular fiange 31 which issoldered to the half section 12. Fig. 2 shows the electric lamp with thecasing thereof opened outwardly, but otherwise illustrates the parts ofthe lamp in their normal position with thecircu't closer spring 32 inits -upper position free of the jaw 27 and the plates by which said jawis formed. The circuit closer'spring 32 lies within'the outer verticalportion of the half section 12, and

it isadapted to-have a vertical movement under the influence of manualpressure ap- .plied to a buttonhead 33 connected therewith andhaving-its shank within a. vertical slot 34 in the half section 12. Thelower end of the spring 32 is slotted, as at'35f(Fig.

' 5), and held by a loose rivet 36 whose' sha'nk ,v form approximatelyof the letter V, as at 37. When the upper bent end of the spring 32 isin its upper position shown in Fig. 2

there will be no circuit through the battery and lamp, the circuit beingbroken at the space between the upper bent end of said vspring 32 andthe facing portion of the plate 25 and battery terminal 30. When it isdesired to complete the circuit through the battery and lamp the userwill, by pressure applied to the push-button 33, cause the spring 32 toslide' downwardly, and this will result in the spring at 'its upper'bentend engaging the plate 25 'and completing the circuit through thebattery and lamp.

In order to assure an adequate contact of the upper bent end of thespring 32 with the plate 25 when said spring is pushed downwardlyand toavoid said bent end from normally standing too close to said plate 25and to the battery terminal 30, I form a stud 38 on the inner surface ofthe half, section 12 behind the spring 32 and forma recess or loop 39 insaid spring so that when the spring is in its upper position said recessi or loop may pass upon and engage the stud 38 and by its spring tensionlie close against the surface of the section 12 and also so that whenthe spring 32 is slid downwardly, the stud 38 will act to wedge the'upper bent end of the spring inwardly toward and against the plate 25,this latter action being illustrated in Fig. 5. The plates 25, 26 holdthe batte' terminal 30 and so position said ternijinal at any slightshifting of the battery within the casing will not result in saidterminal being moved .into engagement with the circuit closer spring 32.The plates 25, 26 may be bent to some extent to adapt them to the smallvariations that exist in the position of the terminal 30 with respectto'the battery.

It is believed the invention will be fully' understood from theforegoing description, and that further explanation is not required. Itmay be mentioned however that the platev26 may be noncondu-cting oreven, with some disadvantage, omitted, since .the plate 25 extends atright angles toand transversely of the terminal 30 and above the battery28 and is, at the proper time,-

engaged by the bent end of the spring circuit closer 32 to complete the.circuit through said battery terminal 30. The engagement of the plate25 with the terminal 30 and the fact that said plate extendstransversely of and above the battery perin place.

What I claim as my invention and desir to secure by Letters Patent,'is:

1. A portable electric light comprising a casing in two hinged togethersubstantially corresponding longitudinal sections having latching meansat their free edges, a battery in one of said sections having the usualtwo terminals, an electric lamp socketed in the end of the same sectionand in electrical env mits said plate to aid in holding the batterygagement with one of said terminals, a jaw.

secured within and insulated from said section and receiving between itsmembers the other of said terminals, and a circuit closer carried bysaid section and having an upper end to engage the adjacent conductingmember of said jaw when in one lposition and stand clear thereof when inits other position.

2. A portable .electric light comprising a metal casing in two hingedtogether substantially corresponding sections having latching means attheir free edges, a battery :sol

in one of said sections having the usual two terminals, aI bracketsecured within and near the upperend of the same section, a reflectorheld at the end of said section, an

electriclamp held by said bracket `with its bulb within said refie'ctorand its contact in engagement with one of said terminals, a ljawinsulated from and secured. to said bracket and receiving betweenitsmembers the other of said terminals, and-a slidable circuit closercarried by said section and having an inwardly extended upper-end toengage the adjacent conducting member of said jaw when one position andstand clear thereof when in its other position.

3. A portable electric lightcomprising-a casing in two hinged togethersubstantially corresponding longitudinal sections having latching meansat their free edges, a battery1 in one of said sections having the usualtwo terminals, an. electric'lamp socketed in the. end of the samesection and in electrical encuit closer carried by said section andhave' ing an inwardl') extended upper end to engage the adjacent'conducting member of said jaw when in one ,position and stand clearthereof when in its other position, said circuit closer being of springmetal having an exposed head connected therewith' for its manualoperation and also a recess in its outer face, and said section havingan inwardly projecting studto enter said `recess when the closer isili-'its inoperative position and serve as `a .wedge'to force the upperend'of said'closer linto engagement with said conducting jaw member whenthe closer isomoved to its operative position.

vsigned at New York city, in the county fof New York and State of NewYork, this 19th day 'of May, A. D. 1914.

CHARLES J SAGEBRECHT.

Witnesses: i v

ARTHUR MARION, Oms. C. GILL. i

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